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| Title | : | Lady Windermere's Fan |
| Author | : | Oscar Wilde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Popular Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 70 pages |
| Published | : | 1995 by Penguin Books (first published February 5th 1893) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Plays. Fiction. Drama. Theatre. Literature. 19th Century. Humor |
Oscar Wilde
Paperback | Pages: 70 pages Rating: 3.92 | 18118 Users | 835 Reviews
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Reading an Oscar Wilde play is sort of like life being perfect. The structure of the work is faultless, the dialogue is uber-clever and fantastic. What's wrong with Wilde? Nothing. He's perfect. I can't imagine any writer who wrote so beautifully in his native language. There are some people who are born with 'it' and Wilde is one of them. Of course for someone so perfect he would have to get involved in some nasty social business via his decade. But when you look back at Wilde, one realizes that he is someone from the 19th Century who is saying goodbye to the Victorian era and culture. It's like he couldn't wait to jump into the 20th Century. Which makes it sad that we didn't accept Wilde with our open arms. We killed the thing that was so beautiful and right.Wilde was born in 1854 and died in 1900. I was born in 1954 and was convinced I would be dead by the year 2000 - just because of Wilde. It's silly and egotistic on my part, yet it also shows how much I love Wilde.
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| Original Title: | Lady Windermere's Fan |
| ISBN: | 014062399X (ISBN13: 9780140623994) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lord Windermere, Lady Windermere, Lord Darlington, The Duchess of Berwick, Lord Augustus Lorton, Lady Agatha Carlisle, Lady Plymdale, Mr. Cecil Graham |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 18118 Users | 835 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Lady Windermere's Fan
My phone's new e-reader came preloaded with a handful of public domain texts, and this was one of them. I was in this play my freshman year in high school, playing Lady Agatha ("Yes, mamma" delivered in varying inflections) so it's been a while since I read it.This time, it struck me as rather obvious in its morality. Lady Windermere is strict in her moral code right up until she isn't, and then has to be saved by the woman whose morals she despises, thereby becoming a better, kinder, moreReading Oscar Wilde's books is an amazing feeling because you never get dissapointed.This one is a magnificent play. "Margaret: Are ALL men bad.Duchess of Berwick: Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good.""Yes, I love you! You are more to me than anything in the whole world. What does your husband give you? Nothing. Whatever is i him he gives to this wretched woman, whom he has thrust into your
There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
Well, it seems that my liking of Wilde's works follows a graphic like this one:I am not kidding you. Every time I read another play, I think it's better than the one I read before. Perhaps I'm reading them in some particular order unknown to me, or my opinion is starting to get biased. In any case, I enjoyed this immensely.This one involves more drama and problems than the plays I read previous to this one. It has a jealous wife, there's blackmailing, there are some misunderstood things that
I think these classic plays are better enjoyed on stage than by reading. That seems so obvious that it seems silly to say. But the problem for most of us is, we haven't seen them on stage and probably won't. There is enough going on in this play though to make it a fun read. I use the word fun rather loosely because, even though it is a comedy, it doesn't seem like one to me. Maybe that is one of the things lost in reading versus watching, I don't know. I think it's a subtle style of humor that
I'm honestly amazed by the Genius of Oscar Wilde. After falling in love with The Importance of Being Earnest I wasn't sure if he'll be able to do it again but Boy, was I wrong. Lady Windermere's fan was just as brilliant (maybe not as witty but definately a strong narrative full of funny and shocking moments).This Play is about Lady Windermere. When she learns that her husband has an improper relation with another woman (of low Status) and then wants to divide this woman into their home, she
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